Doyle (Arthur Conan) Tales of Sherlock Holmes
£195
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [c.1940].
‘Madison Square Books’ edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket.
A Grosset & Dunlap compilation combining ‘A Study in Scarlet’, ‘The Sign of Four’ and several short stories; this printing’s jacket, carrying a photograph of Basil Rathbone as Holmes, dates it to around the 1939–40 Rathbone film tie-ins.
In stock
Tanning to text-block; rubbing to edges of jacket, spine slightly dulled.
Photograph of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes to front panel of jacket.
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